THRASS GOES LIVE!
FRIDAY, 9 JUNE 2006

Welcome to THRASS GOES LIVE! and the next stage of our exciting journey from MPUMALANGA to MILTON KEYNES.

Follow our journey by tuning in to our regular video streams from locations in South Africa and the UK. See how quickly the children learn as they use THRASS and see how impressed student teachers, educators and now Government Ministers are too.

Today we are invited to the launch of the THRASS SMART Project in the new audio visual classroom at Masibambane College in Orange Farm township near Soweto. The Project is jointly sponsored by THRASS UK and SMART Technologies Inc and represents the very latest in education technology - the groundbreaking THRASS Phoneme Machine on an interactive SMART Board.

We hear Mandla Maseko, Chief Education Specialist, Children and Youth Literacy, Department of Education, South African Government speaking of how his Government wants to consider how it can use a programme such as THRASS to benefit the majority of South Africans in public schools. And we are amazed to see the children, whose first language is either Zulu or Sotho, using the Phoneme Machine on the SMART Board to teach English to the adult visitors, who include local people and over 100 delegates from all over Africa who have been attending a THRASS workshop hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

If you would like to view the videostreams from the day or read more about the launch and how THRASS has the potential to benefit all African children, click on the links below the main picture on the left.’

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